We are one month away from hearing the sentencing in this federal criminal case against a former GPS employee. Twenty years seems like a long time to serve unless you thought you were hiding some major crimes. I wonder if the FBI computer forensic examiners were able to retrieve any of the emails/data/files.

Does anyone have any inside scoop on who this guy is(was) and what is role was in GPS? Or who he was protecting by deleting the emails?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/scottish-man-pleads-guilty-obstruction-justice

BOSTON – A Scottish man who was previously employed by Global Premier Soccer LLC (GPS), a youth soccer organization, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to obstructing justice.

Gavin MacPhee, 34, pleaded guilty to one count of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in a federal investigation. U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock scheduled sentencing for Sept. 21, 2020.

MacPhee used his access to GPS’s information technology platform to delete an email account and other files related to an ongoing criminal investigation. A search at GPS’s corporate headquarters was executed in October 2019. Thereafter, with full knowledge of the federal investigation and the relevance of those materials, MacPhee deleted at least one email account for an individual who had since left the company, and with whom he had a close relationship.

The charging statute provides for a sentence of 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

Here's an article in a UK paper that has a picture of the guy:
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/kids-footie-scot-faces-20-22072979.amp